Atheists, Agnostics, and Anti-theists of ModDB
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The Real Difference
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Of all the differences between the two sides during the debate, I think this was the most important one.
So basically Ken Ham is like "I'm a Christian that will believe this **** to the end, even if proven wrong in every way."
And Bill Nye is like, "Prove to me any one of these things is actually off and I will change based upon that information."
There is one behavior here I admire, and that person is the one who won the debate. I don't even have to hear the arguments to know the winner at this point.
Your summary of both answers is pretty much spot on, and I agree with the last little bit as well. I did not watch the debate (felt the thing was a bit pointless TBH) but after I saw this I don't need to watch the debate to know which side I support.
It was interesting to be honest, I thought that it would be a waste of time too, but I learned a couple of things from Bill and at least Ken Ham didn't go full retard (in my opinion), I have seen worse debates.
Maybe not full retard, but he basically said the same thing again and again. And started with "word hijacking" did not astonish me either. Science is science and diving it into actual and pseudo is an offense.
Well the classic faith vs. evidence issue...
... and this is why neither side will ever "win", simply because both sides are working from different premises. Each side values something that the other side does not.